Heinrich Harmjanz
Heinrich Harmjanz (born May 22, 1904 in Neuruppin ; † March 2, 1994 in Burgwedel ) was a German linguist , folklorist and National Socialist sociologist .
Life
From 1930 Harmjanz was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 254.176) and SS (membership number 18.493), where he was appointed Obersturmbannführer in 1941. Harmjanz became a private lecturer in folklore , folk research, sociology and border and foreign German at the University of Königsberg in 1935 and a full professor there in 1937 . In 1938 he moved to the University of Frankfurt am Main as a full professor .
As a holder of a chair on leave, Harmjanz was from 1937 to 1943 clerk in the Science Office of the Reich Ministry of Science , from 1942 personal assistant to Minister Bernhard Rust , Ministerial Director and Head of the Ministerial Office. In addition, in 1939 he became head of the Folk Research and Folklore Department in the SS ancestral heritage . In this context he was accused of participating in art theft in Poland .
In 1944 Harmjanz had to give up his positions in science policy at the instigation of the Rosenberg office because, according to the latter, his habilitation thesis plagiarized the work of a Jewish scientist, Wilhelm Jerusalem .
After the end of the war he lived as a reuse professor in Elze and later in Bissendorf .
literature
- Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 70.
- Otthein Rammstedt : German Sociology 1933–1945. The normality of adaptation . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1986.
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
- Friedemann Schmoll: Heinrich Harmjanz. Sketches from the National Socialist science policy . In: Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie , 3, 2008, pp. 105–130.
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Harmjanz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Regine Dehnel: The perpetrators, the victims and the art. Review of the National Socialist raid.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/numery/numer18.html
- ^ Carsten Klingemann : Sociology in the Third Reich . Nomos, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4298-6 , p. 254 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harmjanz, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German folklorist and National Socialist science politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuruppin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 2, 1994 |
| Place of death | Burgwedel |